The Slug - NaPoWriMo Day 11

The slug

There is something out there

Deep in the garden

It eats my plants

Destroys my lettuce

The Coriander a goner

Silver trails the only clue

What can be done?

I know not

What it is or

Where it hides

looked under rocks

Searched in the grass

Then I found it

Snuggled in the damp

Mud below a log

What can be done?

Poisoned pellets, too dangerous

Might get the dog

Traps safe. Maybe

But a waste of beer

Copper tape on pots

Or Live and let live

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The Bop. The invention of poet Afaa Michael Weaver, the Bop is a kind of combination sonnet + song. Like a Shakespearean sonnet, it introduces, discusses, and then solves (or fails to solve) a problem. Like a song, it relies on refrains and repetition. In the basic Bop poem, a six-line stanza introduces the problem, and is followed by a one-line refrain. The next, eight-line stanza discusses and develops the problem, and is again followed by the one-line refrain. Then, another six-line stanza resolves or concludes the problem, and is again followed by the refrain.